Live Play Data

Festering Thicket

Land — Swamp Forest · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1184

Decks Running

578

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=277

21%

12%

10%

11%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 18

Cast same turn as drawn 61%

The "good card" funnel

1184 brought · 504 players

Brought to game

1184

Ever drawn

355

Reached battlefield

277

Still on board at game end

230

Once cast, 83% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=252) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=679).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=67).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +7.9pp; 95% confidence interval +2.0pp to +13.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

384 instances

2.6%

Library

59.9%

Battlefield

21.9%

Graveyard

4.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Festering Thicket

Land — Swamp Forest

(

: Add

.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2}

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jakob Eirich

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.